How to Remove PowerfulBrowse Ads “Ads by PowerfulBrowse” Adware

Question.

I never installed this (PowerfulBrowse Ads) crap on my Google Chrome and I tried everything you suggest except the computer will not allow old on the web data. So I appear stuck with this rubbish. Please guide me the way how to Remove PowerfulBrowse Ads “Ads by PowerfulBrowse” Aware from my computer.

Solved Answer.

Yes, you are better understand that behavior. It’s an Adware campaign which is promote itself from free softwares & downloads. Actually it is come into your computer through those type of free software. It is install as a plugin / Addons / Extension. Once you get it installed, you may got lot of other changes on your computer. You may change following settings:

Default search engine.

Search provider.

Homepage

URL search engine

DNS settings.

HOST file redirection.

Once you get it installed into your computer as a browser’s extension. It takes over all the advertisements space on all the website which have advertisement space. So that it can provide their own advertisements into all ads space. I’ll tell you how it works. It actually place their own advertisements into all the advertisements which you can see on any of website on internet. That means it can give us any of advertisements which they wants and on any of website. Actually they only wants your click on their advertisements so that they can get more revenue from the Adware campaign.

You must known their behavior of installation. They often come into computer in the background of other programs when you install any free stuff on your computer. You even don’t get any notification of “PowerfulBrowse Ads”.

After infected PowerfulBrowse Ads. Your computer speed become slow. It may effect your browser speed as well because it installed into computer as an extension and if you know the extensions make your browser slower.

To remove it from your computer you just have to follow some steps. Please follow the following instructions carefully. Let us know if you face any problem while following steps at info@techsupportall.com

Removal Instructions

Automatic Fixit

Download Adware Remover Tool v3.8 to remove PowerfulBrowse Ads Automatically, It’s a Freeware utility specially designed for Adware Removal. This tool can remove most of the Adwares from Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla Firefox and from their registry traces as well..

Manual Steps

Step 1 : To Uninstall PowerfulBrowse Ads from computer

Now click on Programs –> Uninstall a program or Program and Features (Windows-7, 8, Vista).

Uninstall a program for Vista, 7, 8

For Windows XP users click on Add/Remove Programs.

Uninstall a program for Windows xp

You will get a window which have listed all the installed programs.

UninstallPowerfulBrowse Ads from there.

Also do uninstall all the programs which are listed in Suspicious Programs list below, if you find any installed into your computer. Because all these programs are unwanted. You should uninstall all them immediately if you found any.

Uninstall all unwanted programs

Suspicious Programs list

PowerfulBrowse Ads

Browser defender

Browser protect

Browser protected by conduit

Delta search, Babylon

LessTabs

WebCake 3.0

Yealt

LyricsContainer

VideoSaver

AddLyrics

privacy safe gaurd

unfriend checker

Price peep today

Coupon amazine

TidyNetwork.com

DownloadTerms 1.0

Yontoo

Uninstallall the unwanted programs, which are not listed here.

Step 2 : To Remove PowerfulBrowse Ads from Internet Explorer.

Step 2.1 : Remove PowerfulBrowse Ads add-ons from Internet Explorer.

Open Internet Explorer then go to Tools menu (press “F10” key once to active menu bar) and then click on Internet Option a configuration page will be opened

click on Programs tab then click on Manage Addons, now you’ll get a window which have listed all the installed addons.

Now disable the PowerfulBrowse Ads add-on, also disable all the unknown / unwanted addons from this list. (As per below screenshot).

Step 2.2 : Reset Internet Explorer

Open Internet Explorer. Click on Tools menu (Press “F10” key once to active the menu bar), click on Internet Option. A internet optionwindow will open.

For IE9, IE10 users may click on Gear icon. Then click on tools.

Click on Advanced tab,then click on RESET button.

Now you will get a new popup for confirmation, tick mark on Delete personal setting then click on RESET button on that. (As shown on below screenshot)

Now your Internet Explorer has been Restored to default settings.

Now you will appear a popup stated “complete all the tasks”. After completion click on close button.

Step 3 : To Remove PowerfulBrowse Ads from Mozilla Firefox

Step 3.1 : Remove PowerfulBrowse Ads from add-ons

Open Firefox and then go the Tools menu (Press “F10” key once to active Menu bar) click on Add-ons, you’ll get a page click on extensions from the left side pane. now look on right side pane you’ll get all the installed add-ons listed on there. Disable or Remove PowerfulBrowse Ads add-on, also disable all the unknown / unwanted add-ons from there. (As per below screen shot)

Step 3.2 : Reset Mozilla Firefox

Open Firefox and then go the Helpmenu (Press “F10” key once to active Menu bar)

Go to Help menu then click on “Troubleshooting information”Note:you can also open this page in this ways, open Firefox then type this command in the address bar “about:support” (without quote) and then hit enter or OK.

You will get a page “Troubleshooting information” page, here you will get “Reset Firefox” option in the right side of the page.

Step 4 : To Remove PowerfulBrowse Ads from Google Chrome

Start Google Chrome, click on options icon (Located in very top right side of the browser), click on Settings. You will get a configuration page.

Under configuration page find a option named as “Open a specific page or set of pages” click on their Set Pages. A another window will come up. Here you will appear the bunch of URL’s under “Set pages”. Delete all them and then enter only one which you want to use as your home page.

Google Chrome Homepage Reset step1Google Chrome Homepage reset step 2

In the same configuration page click on Manage search engines button. Delete all the search engines from there, just keep only www.goole.com as your default search Engine.

Start Google Chrome, click on options icon (Located in very top right side of the browser), then click on Tools then, click on Extensions.(As shown on below screenshot)

You will get a configuration page. which have listed all the installed extensions, Remove PowerfulBrowse Ads extension & also remove all the unknown / unwanted extensions from there. To remove them, click on remove (recycle bin) icon (as shown on screenshot)

For windows xp:Copy and Paste this following command: “%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default" in Run box then click on OK button. You’ll get a Google chrome profile location in windows explorer.For windows 7,8,vista:Copy and Paste this following command: “%UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default“ in Run box then click on OK button. You’ll get a Google chrome profile location in windows explorer.

In the default folder location, Rename a file, named as “Preferences“ to “Preferences.old“.(Note: to do that right-click on Preferences file and click on rename option you’ll get a edit box of Preferences file, now rename the text “Preferences” to “Preferences.old”)

In the same default folder location, Rename one more file, named as “Web Data“ to “Web Data.old“.(Note: to do that right-click on Web Data file and click on rename option you’ll get a edit box of Web Data file, now rename the text “Web Data” to “Web Data.old”)

Now start your Google chrome, it should be restored to default settings.

Step 5 : To Remove PowerfulBrowse Ads from Registry

Press “window key + R” (Flag sign key + R) you will get Run box then type “REGEDIT” into the run box then click on OK. You’ll get a registry editor window.

In the registry editor, click on Edit menu and then click on find option, you’ll get edit box to search any string into registry editor

Type “PowerfulBrowse” into the find box and then click on Find Next.

The search result will highlight the key or value which have contains the PowerfulBrowse string.

Now delete the Registry Key/Value/Value-Data if any one contains “PowerfulBrowse Ads” string (must see the example screenshot below)Note:- Do not delete the complete value data, just delete the PowerfulBrowse path only (for example see screenshot3 below)

Use F3 key to find Next. and do the last step to all results.

We are giving you the example on “Conduit” Adware.

Screenshot 1

Screenshot 2

Screenshot 3

Step 6 : To Remove PowerfulBrowse Ads from Autorun Tasks

Click on Start button and then do Right-Click on the computer and then do left-click on Manage. A manage window will appear.

In the manage window click on Tasks Scheduler from right side pane, then click on “Task Scheduler Library“, Now look on left side pane and Remove all the Tasks which have contains PowerfulBrowse string and also remove all the unknown / unwanted tasks from there (As per the screenshot below).

Step 7 : To Remove PowerfulBrowse Ads from Startup

Press “window key + R” (Flag sign key + R) you will get Run box then type “MSCONFIG into the run box then click on OK. You’ll get a msconfig window.

In the msconfig window click on Startup tab, here you’ll get all the startup entries, so look on the list and then do Un-check the entries which is contains PowerfulBrowse. Also Un-check all the others entries which you found unwanted. then click on OK to apply all the changes.

Step 8 : To Remove PowerfulBrowse Ads from Services

Press “window key + R” (Flag sign key + R) you will get Run box then type “MSCONFIG” into the run box then click on OK. . You’ll get a msconfig window.

In the msconfig window click on Services tab, here you’ll get all the startup services list, click on “Hide Windows Services” all the windows related services will be hidden. now it’s only display the 3rd party installed services, now look on the list and then do Un-check the service which have contains PowerfulBrowse Ads. Also Un-check all the unknown / unwanted services. then click on OK to apply all the changes.

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